Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
David Kelly
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Any set of procedures, no matter how well intentioned or useful, that are too difficult to follow, will be circumvented.
Ravera's First Law of System Administration
C: a language that combines all the elegance and power of assembly language with all the readability and maintainability of assembly language.
Anonymous
A programmer that is 10 times better than another will probably be happy making only 3 times as much.
Paul Graham
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.
Jon Ribbens
We kid ourselves if we think that the ratio of procedure to data in an active data-base system can be made arbitrarily small or even kept small.
Alan J. Perlis
You can't solve social problems through technical means.
Anonymous
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso